About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Sci-Fi / Mystery
- Language – English
- Category – Short Film / Storytelling
- Prompt Title – Runway AI Time Travel Adventure Video Prompt
Prompt Details
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### **Optimized AI Prompt Template for Dynamic Storytelling**
This template is designed to guide the AI through a narrative sequence, focusing on cinematic language, consistent aesthetics, and dynamic action. It functions like a director’s treatment or a detailed shot list.
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**[PROJECT TITLE / CONCEPT]**
* A short, evocative title that encapsulates the core idea.
**[LOGLINE]**
* A one-sentence summary of your story. This helps the AI understand the central conflict and theme from the very beginning.
**[OVERALL ART DIRECTION & CINEMATIC STYLE]**
* **Visual Style:** (e.g., Gritty Neo-Noir, Sleek Retrofuturism, Analog Sci-Fi, Biomechanical Surrealism, Quantum-Glitch). Describe the overall aesthetic.
* **Cinematography:** (e.g., Shot on 35mm film, anamorphic lenses, cinematic wide shots, intimate close-ups, handheld documentary feel, stable dolly shots).
* **Lighting:** (e.g., High-contrast chiaroscuro, soft diffused lighting, volumetric neon haze, sterile fluorescent lights, dramatic golden hour).
* **Color Palette:** (e.g., Desaturated blues and greys with a single vibrant accent color (crimson), monochromatic with film grain, triadic color scheme of teal, magenta, and gold).
* **Mood & Tone:** (e.g., Mysterious, tense, awe-inspiring, suspenseful, melancholic, urgent).
**[CHARACTER / KEY SUBJECT DESCRIPTION]**
* **Protagonist(s):** (e.g., A weathered temporal agent in a worn leather duster with subtle cybernetic implants around their left eye. Their expression is a mix of exhaustion and determination).
* **Key Object(s):** (e.g., A brass and obsidian chronometer that glows with a faint, pulsating blue light. Its surface is covered in strange, shifting geometric patterns).
**[DYNAMIC SCENE BREAKDOWN]**
*This is the core of the prompt. Describe each scene as a distinct shot or a continuous camera movement. Use action verbs and describe the transformation or change you want to see.*
**Scene 1: The Inciting Incident**
* **Shot Description:** A wide shot of a dusty, forgotten archive room. Books and scrolls are piled high. In the center, a lone historian brushes dust off a strange, metallic artifact. As their fingers touch it, the artifact flares with an impossible, purple energy, casting long, distorted shadows that writhe on the walls.
* **Key Visual Elements:** Dust motes glittering in a single beam of light, ancient leather-bound books, the artifact (a dodecahedron made of bismuth), pulsating energy waves, distorting shadows.
* **Camera Movement:** Slow, dramatic push-in towards the historian and the artifact, accelerating slightly as the energy flares.
**Scene 2: The Temporal Displacement**
* **Shot Description:** Extreme close-up on the historian’s wide, terrified eyes, reflecting the purple glow. The background begins to warp and blur, a visual representation of temporal shearing. The solid walls of the archive dissolve into a vortex of swirling colors and fractured images of past and future events (dinosaurs, futuristic cities, historical figures flash by). The sound of a thousand clocks ticking out of sync.
* **Key Visual Elements:** Temporal vortex effect, data-moshing, glitch artifacts, ghosting images, lens flares, chromatic aberration.
* **Camera Movement:** Hold on the close-up, but the background is in violent, chaotic motion. A subtle dolly zoom can enhance the feeling of disorientation.
**Scene 3: The Arrival**
* **Shot Description:** The chaotic vortex collapses, and the camera pulls back. The historian is now standing in the same spot, but the archive is gone. They are in a sprawling, bio-luminescent alien jungle at night. Giant, glowing flora pulsate with soft light, and strange, multi-limbed creatures move in the periphery. The historian looks down at their hands, which are flickering with residual temporal energy.
* **Key Visual Elements:** Bio-luminescent plants, glowing alien fungi, dense, otherworldly foliage, twin moons in the sky, residual energy effect on the character’s body.
* **Camera Movement:** A smooth, slow crane shot pulling up and away from the character to reveal the vast, awe-inspiring alien landscape.
**[KEY MOTIFS & SYMBOLS]**
* **Visual Motifs:** (e.g., Spiraling patterns, clock faces, glitching data, reflections showing different time periods). List any recurring visual elements that are important for the story.
**[TECHNICAL PARAMETERS & CONSTRAINTS]**
* **Aspect Ratio:** 16:9 (Cinematic Widescreen).
* **Frame Rate:** 24fps (for a filmic look).
* **Realism Level:** Photorealistic, hyper-detailed, high fidelity.
* **Motion Level:** Describe the desired amount of motion (e.g., “high motion in scene 2, low motion in scenes 1 and 3”).
* **Negative Prompts:** (e.g., no text, no watermarks, no humans with extra limbs, avoid cartoony or illustrated styles, no bright daylight, avoid modern-day technology).
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### **Example Prompt: “The Echo Collector”**
Here is a practical application of the template above, ready to be used in an AI video generator.
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**[PROJECT TITLE / CONCEPT]**
* The Echo Collector
**[LOGLINE]**
* In a rain-drenched cyberpunk city, a noir detective uses a forbidden device to pull ghostly “echoes” of past events from crime scenes, but the latest murder pulls him into a temporal paradox that threatens to erase him from existence.
**[OVERALL ART DIRECTION & CINEMATIC STYLE]**
* **Visual Style:** Cyberpunk Neo-Noir, gritty and atmospheric. Inspired by Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.
* **Cinematography:** Shot with anamorphic lenses, creating distinct lens flares and a wide field of view. Heavy use of shallow depth of field. A mix of steady, deliberate tracking shots and tense close-ups.
* **Lighting:** High-contrast chiaroscuro lighting. The primary light sources are glowing neon signs, holographic advertisements, and the blue light from the character’s device. Volumetric lighting and dense artificial fog.
* **Color Palette:** Deep, desaturated blues, cold cyans, and dark greys, punctuated by vibrant magenta and electric yellow from neon lights.
* **Mood & Tone:** Mysterious, suspenseful, and melancholic. A sense of technological decay and existential dread.
**[CHARACTER / KEY SUBJECT DESCRIPTION]**
* **Protagonist:** Detective Miles Corbin, a man in his late 40s. He has tired, weary eyes, a synthetic trench coat glistening with perpetual rain, and a subtle cybernetic port on his temple. He is focused and haunted.
* **Key Object:** The “Resonator,” a handheld device made of dark, polished chrome and glass. When active, its central lens projects a cone of shimmering, light-blue particles.
**[DYNAMIC SCENE BREAKDOWN]**
**Scene 1: The Activation**
* **Shot Description:** A medium shot of Detective Corbin kneeling in a rain-slicked, grimy alleyway, marked by holographic police tape. He holds up the Resonator. He activates the device, and a cone of blue, shimmering light projects from it, illuminating the brick wall in front of him. The raindrops seem to slow and hang in the air within the beam of light.
* **Key Visual Elements:** Glistening wet asphalt, flickering neon signs reflected in puddles, holographic police tape, the sleek chrome Resonator, shimmering light particles, suspended water droplets.
* **Camera Movement:** A very slow, tense push-in on Corbin and the device, emphasizing his concentration.
**Scene 2: The Echo Manifests**
* **Shot Description:** Close up on the brick wall being scanned by the device. As the blue light washes over it, a ghostly, semi-transparent image begins to form out of static and light particles. It’s a glitching, ethereal “echo” of a past event: two figures arguing. The echo is unstable, flickering and distorting like a corrupted video file. The audio is muffled, a cacophony of distorted voices.
* **Key Visual Elements:** Glitch effect (data-moshing), ghostly transparent figures, shimmering particles coalescing into human shapes, chromatic aberration on the edges of the echo, audio-visual distortion.
* **Camera Movement:** A slow pan across the wall, following the formation of the ghostly figures. The camera focus racks slightly, as if struggling to resolve the image.
**Scene 3: The Paradox**
* **Shot Description:** The perspective shifts to an over-the-shoulder shot of Corbin. The ghostly echo on the wall continues to play, but one of the figures—the victim—suddenly stops and its head turns unnaturally, its glitching eyes looking directly back at Corbin. The Resonator in Corbin’s hand begins to spark violently. Corbin’s own hand holding the device begins to flicker and go transparent, just like the echo.
* **Key Visual Elements:** The echo breaking the fourth wall, direct eye contact from the ghost, electrical sparks, Corbin’s hand becoming translucent and glitching, a look of pure shock and terror on Corbin’s face.
* **Camera Movement:** A rapid dolly zoom (Vertigo effect) on Corbin’s face, conveying his sudden, terrifying realization that the past is looking back at him.
**[KEY MOTIFS & SYMBOLS]**
* **Visual Motifs:** Reflections in puddles showing distorted images, the constant falling rain, glitching and data corruption as a metaphor for memory and time.
**[TECHNICAL PARAMETERS & CONSTRAINTS]**
* **Aspect Ratio:** 16:9 Cinematic Widescreen.
* **Frame Rate:** 24fps.
* **Realism Level:** Ultra-photorealistic, high detail, cinematic quality.
* **Motion Level:** Low and deliberate motion in Scene 1, building to high, chaotic glitch motion in Scenes 2 and 3.
* **Negative Prompts:** no daylight, no clean or utopian environments, no smiling, avoid flat lighting, no text overlays, no anime style.